Friday, August 3, 2007

It isn't easy being a mollusk alone in the big, deep ocean. It seems everywhere you go there is a crab or fish trying to eat your tasty flesh. This song, sung to Wayfaring Stranger by Johnny Cash, is an ode to the wayfaring mollusk.

Wayfaring Mollusk

I’m just a poor wayfaring molluskCrawling through the seafloor belowThere is no sickness, no toil nor dangerIn the dark depths to which I go

I’m going down to hide from predatorsAnd if I get caught inside I’ll goI’ll go inside this here shellProtected evermore

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Kevin works at the Duke Marine Lab as a researcher at the Marine Conservation Molecular Facility studying the population genetics of vent fauna. He has an M.Sc. in Biology from Penn State where his research focused on marine invertebrate systematics and the community structure of chemoautotrophic foundation fauna at hydrothermal vents. Visit Kevin's personal website, where his CV lives, and follow him on Twitter, Flickr, Friendfeed, YouTube, Nature Network, Amazon, Research Blogging and Facebook.